American Culture Series I (ACS I), 1493-1806

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Overview

Perfect for the smaller library, this collection of books and pamphlets opens with a Christopher Columbus letter of 1493 and Martin Waldseemuller's Cosmographie introductio.

The pages of the past are opened to students of American literature, history, and culture through this documentation of pre-1900 Americana, which also includes:

Richard Hakluyt's famous Divers Voyages and other narratives of travel and exploration

writings by Increase and Cotton Mather

sermons and religious treatises

descriptions and histories of the early colonies

accounts of Indians and Indian captives

pamphlets on witchcraft and colonial government

Eighteenth-century selections offer a literary dimension through the poems of John Adams and letters by Jonathan Dickinson, and post-Revolutionary writers such as David Humphreys, John Hope, and Noah Webster. A political overview is added in various tracts on slavery and unfair taxation. The 250 titles in this collection are indexed by author, title, and subject in American Culture Series, 1493-1875, A Cumulative Guide, edited by Ophelia Lo.

Romantic. Affirmative. Rhetorical. The poetry of Dylan Thomas urged readers to ponder life as they never had before. Researchers now have access to a concordance and word list keyed to the 1978 printing of Dylan Thomas: The Poems, edited by Daniel Jones.